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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> It seems like prerequisite classes are not being fulfilled. FWIW I did a little digging, and EECS 127 indeed has explicit prerequisites of: * Math 53 - Multivariable Calculus * Math 54 - Linear Algebra & Differential Equations * CS
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> I cant imagine learning calculus / linear algebra on my own in high school. I don't think they necessarily expect students to have that from high school, because the class mentioned, EECS 127, lists three college classes as
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Comic: "The Science News Cycle" https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174
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> Facebook would've Given how the "hostility" is often more than just ugly-UI, and aspects like monopolies, surveillance, and billing you for services you don't want, I think this is relevant: > I've written
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> The switches start out gray and become black when toggled. Rant: That type of slider-switch is an inferior usurper of the classic tickbox, that rode in on a wave of touch-screen-ification. Oh, it can be done well, sometimes, but it&#
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
I find there's an asymmetry between listening and speaking. It's fine for someone else to tell me about their week, but I can't reciprocate with the same level of detail. I suspect when driving demands attention, it's ea
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I submit that the "is malice or incompetence" heuristic can be broken by pathological inputs which result in an indefinite runtime, and that we've encountered some of them in the last decade. The correct response when that ha
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IMO the important bit here (or at least, it is congruent with my own rants) is how much humans can perceive a fictitious mind that doesn't really exist, because it's something humans do automatically even when we abstractly know
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Bank-be-crazy Anecdote: I used a paper check to send money to a relative. My bank balance went down, but a week later my relative still hadn't received anything. Eventually the relative's bank said that something went wrong, and I
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> students will very often find data pattern that fit the goal but does not correspond to a real mathematical principle. That reminds me of a niche paper [0] critiquing a certain way of teaching remedial math that was over-focused on tes
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> a flaw in the logic [...] mechanism Similar to: "Birds fly, my spinning helical device flies, therefore we've started to replicate how birds fly." > without having to build elements that one expect on a conscious bein
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> how much value personalized ads provide I think it's important we break this question apart by "value to whom." 1. Consumers barely notice ads for things they don't care about. 2. Sellers will see it as percentage i
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It might not fit every requirement to call it a cartel, but certainly that word is somewhere in the right direction.
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Intel 486 Q X, now with quantum math coprocessor. :p
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I wonder if they simply couldn't fit it inside the scanner? From what I can find online, the biggest blade-cell dimension is 9.6cm, but I'm having a harder time finding the size limitations for the scanners.
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I'm guessing parent-poster is saying the "is" should be "are", on the basis that the word "components" is plural. That said, I didn't perceive a problem either, and my self-diagnosis is that "non
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Well, yeah, and knowing first-aid is worthless if someone's been decapitated. :p If some malware is that deep on the phone, able to redirect calls, then you've got much bigger problems and the attacker might not even need to tri
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I feel it's either: 1. Everyone already employed is "cheating" and not using fundamentals. Therefore to prepare them for the workforce them must just learn to "cheat" effectively... at the expense of the "ideal
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To frame it another way: Better to inconvenience the pope once every few years than have tens of thousands of "little person" account compromises every year. I expect his Holiness might agree.
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Probably not news to anyone here, but partial step in this direction is to put down vetted official contact details for the institutions. Every time someone calls to say there's a problem with your account, you ask for their name and&#
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> The adtech industry’s leading trade groups also expressed concern — partly out of fear that a public backlash could lead to regulations that threaten their business. They’re proposing rules that would allow companies to continue sharin
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I think what gives me anxiety about the whole situation is: 1. If X% of the population gets wrongly branded with the scarlet letter B[ot], how do they appeal and get it fixed? 2. How will sites notice and know if their choice of "bot
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The converse is true too: Inequality is emergent from the math, not from individual merit. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-ine...
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The fictional speaker in quotes is supposed to be saying something silly, yes, and the "easy peasy" is to convey their overconfident naivete. [More detail in reply to sibling-comment]
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Correct, perhaps was being too subtle and ran into Poe's Law. [0] I'm saying that their attempt to reduce a human-categorization question to just-gametes is the same kind of stupid and incomplete as trying to reduce another vehi
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> If you want to define biological sex as only being the gametes Compare to: "If it burns diesel, it's a truck, if it burns gasoline, it's a car. Thus, there are only two kinds with no overlap, easy peasy."
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Some people think that as long as they "don't make waves", they'll be safe from creeping fascism. It's not true, because The people who want power will just make a typo—or do a stupid keyword match—and now Harry But
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Perhaps the good news is that even the best spreadsheet-slinging accountant in the west would still going to need some programming experience to do their verification. I mean, they could ask an LLM "what does this code do, and will i
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I cynically predict that some of the new practices being hyped could easily end up worse... Before: "I learned very little this year, because I was placed in charge of the same stuff , and I've already learned most of what I coul
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> Do not underestimate the utility of having a starting point overview on a topic you know absolutely nothing about. Perhaps, but we already had that in the form of search-engines and primers and how-to guides and Wikipedia. The actiona

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